Brush



(No Model.)

M. E. BRIDGMAN.

BRUSH.

No. 453,353. Patented June 2, 1391.

I I 727 H UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY E. BRIDGMAN, OF PENN YAN, NEW YORK.

BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,353, dated June 2, 1891.

Application filed December 30, 1889. $erial No. 335,302. (No model.)

My object is to produce a brush having such an auxiliary brush or brushes mounted upon the outer end of a frame mounted upon guides on top of the main brush and extensible horizontally beyond the end of the brush by sliding the frame outwardly, and provided with means to lock the frame and hold the brush in its horizontally-extended position.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claims hereto annexed. It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure l is a side elevation of a blacking or polishing brush provided with an auxiliary brush extended horizontally beyond the body.

Fig. 2 is a top plan of the same.

A is the body of the brush, provided with a handle and a dauber 2 upon top of the front end of the handle.

B is the auxiliary brush, shown in the drawings as consisting of two tuft-holding blocks standing in angular relation to each other and projected outward horizontally, and secured in or upon the end of a frame, shown in the drawings as composed of a single piece of wire bent and curved substantially as shown, and having its rearward arms lying alongside of the handle and fitting through tubular guides 3, secured to the top of the brush and having its rear ends bent inwardly toward each other under the raised portion of the handle and inserted into a sleeve 4 and there secured.

At 5 I show a spring-catch adapted to snap up behind the rear of the sleeve when the frame is projected, as shown in the drawings, and to hold the auxiliary brush in its extended position.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the main brush and tubular guides upon the top thereof, of a frame fitting in and adapted to slide out beyond the brush, and an auxiliary brush secured upon the end of the frame and lying 'in a plane parallel to the top of the brush.

2. The combination,with the brush-body A, having a handle and a dauber upon its back and having tubular eyes 3 secured thereto on each side of the said handle, of a wire frame having a brush upon its forward end and having its opposite forks sliding within the said eyes upon the opposite sides of the handle, a collar joining the opposite forks of the said frame, and a spring-clip adapted to engage the said collar, as described.

3. The combination,with the brush-body A, having eyes upon its top, of a frame having a brush upon its forward end and projecting horizontally therefrom sliding within the said eyes, and a spring-clip adapted to engage the said frame, as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of December, 1889.

MARY E. BRIDGMAN.

In presence of CHAS. H. BRIDGMAN, F. S. PLAISTED. 

